Medieval Crime and Social Control

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Crime is a matter of interpretation, especially in the Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and pressures were continually forced to rethink what a crime was--and what was a crime. These essays reveal how various forces in medieval society interacted and competed in interpreting and infl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanawalt, Barbara A., 1941-
Other Authors: Wallace, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social history > Medieval.
Social control.
Crime.
Contrôle social > Europe > Histoire.
Histoire sociale > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Criminalite > Europe > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Age)
Controle social > Europe > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Age)
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Social control > Europe > History.
Crime > Europe > History.
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Fear of Crime in Late Medieval France; 2. Needful Things; 3. In Defense of Revenge; 4. "The Doom of Resoun": Accommodating Lay Interpretation in Late Medieval England; 5. Chaucer's Hard Cases; 6. The "Unfaithful Wife" in Medieval Spanish Literature and Law; 7. The Rights of Medieval English Women: Crime and the Issue of Representation; 8. Violence against Women in Fifteenth-Century France and the Burgundian State; 9. The Host, the Law, and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns; 10. Slaughter and Romance: Hunting Reserves in Late Medieval England.
  • ContributorsIndex.

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